The Emerging Consciousness
Amelia Barili with Fritjof Capra
December 1-3, 2006
Retreat at Mount Madonna Center, Santa Cruz Mountains, California
The troubled times we live in carry within them an enormous potential for growth and transformation. To successfully meet this challenge we need clarity of vision and the inner strength to bring forth the changes we yearn to see in the world.
In this seminar we will explore together that potential through a blend of ground-breaking analysis, ancient wisdom and lived experience. The subjects to be discussed will include:
* the emergence of a new consciousness in times of crisis and instability
* a new understanding of life, based on recent discoveries in science, which integrates life's biological, cognitive, and social dimensions
* how globalization can be reshaped to make it compatible with the demands of human dignity and ecological sustainability
* and at a more personal level, how to incorporate spiritual practices in your daily life to heal yourself as you serve others.
You will bring home a renewed vision and hope as well as embodied wisdom techniques that will help clear your mind so you can focus most effectively on the task at hand.
* Continuing Education Credit for nurses, MFT/MFCC's, and LCSW's.
AMELIA BARILI, Ph.D., is an award winning UC Berkeley professor and writer, and long time teacher of Classical Yoga and Qigong, who has brought her teachings on personal transformation to many audiences including her university students. To offer them a direct experience of the links between personal and global transformation, she created with Fritjof Capra the course "Globalization and the New Civil Society" with a strong component of "service learning". Capra and Barili also designed and taught together "Deep Ecology in Arts and Science".
FRITJOF CAPRA, Ph.D., is a preeminent thinker of our times. Author of four international best-sellers, including "The Tao of Physics", "The Web of Life", "The Turning Point" and "The Hidden Connections", physicist and ecologist Fritjof Capra, is well known for the clarity of his vision at integrating science, spirituality and concrete steps for social change. He has been the focus of more than 50 television interviews, documentaries, and talk shows in Europe, the United States, Brazil, Argentina and Japan. Dr. Capra frequently leads environmental management seminars for top executives of international corporations. He is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California and is on the faculty of Schumacher College, an international center for ecological studies in the UK.
Self Healing - The Power of Yoga and Qigong
September 15-16
California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
September 21-23
Retreat at Omega, Rhinebeck, New York
October 26-28, 26-31, 26- Nov 2
Retreat at Mount Madonna, Santa Cruz Mountains
The practitioners of ancient healing traditions of India and China have known for thousands of years something that recent medical studies are just now confirming in our western culture: that the human body is not simply a biological machine but a vast e
nergetic network. When our life energy is in balance we are healthy. If the balance is broken through stress, fear, grief, etc., our vital energy gets blocked and pain and disease set in. In order to heal ourselves, it is essential for us to let go of stagnant energy and regain our balance. Drawing from the healing wisdom traditions of India and China, Dr. Amelia Barili will teach you:
• to map and trace the main energy channels in your body
• to recognize how different types of emotions affect each organ and healing meditations for each one
• to gather and store energy from nature and increase your vitality
• acupressure style self-massage and release points to keep your energy flowing
• a form of breathing that balances and integrates both sides of the brain
These time-tested techniques are so simple that anyone can practice them. Practitioners experience increased energy and vitality, better sleep, less stress, improved concentration, enhanced performance and better relationships. Recommended for anyone who wants to lead a healthy and deeply satisfying life, as well as for counseling and health-care professionals. Women find this practice very beneficial to alleviate PMS, menopausal symptoms and disorders in the urinary and reproductive system.
• Continuing Education Credit for nurses, MFT/MFCC's, and LCSW's.
• Fulfills the spiritual practice prerequisite for John F. Kennedy University's Graduate School for Holistic Studies.
• An elective for YTT 500.
AMELIA BARILI, Ph.D., received her doctorate in Yoga Therapy and Philosophy in 1972 from Kaivalyadhama Yoga School in India and has taught Yoga internationally every since. She is also a disciple of Grandmaster Yang Mei Jun, the 27th generation inheritor of the Taoist Medical Qigong system developed in the sacred Kunlun Mountains in China and only recently brought to our western culture.